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Scalpers. "For the first time in many years the large majority of theatrical managers can clearly establish that they are in no way involved in ticket graft and have taken definite steps to abolish it." Thus, last week, the League of New York Theatres signalized the fact that it had allied 80% of all Broadway theatres in an effort to curb the rapacity of theatre ticket scalpers. Under the aegis of Producer Arthur Hopkins (president) and Alfred Emanuel Smith (board member), the League had persuaded 16 ticket brokers to subscribe to its principles: 1) not less than...
...Africa's House of Assembly (Lower House) when he told them without mincing that they cannot secede from the Empire without the consent of Great Britain and every other Dominion. If the Union of South Africa were competent to secede, he warned, then "Ireland would be competent to abolish the Kingship [of George V in Ireland] or to substitute another Royal House, and the result would tend inevitably to the disruption of the Empire...
Some of the greatest university teachers have had trouble with examinations. Nearly all of them express the impossible wish to abolish the entire system if a substitute could only be found. Woodrow Wilson when President of Princeton had section men make up his final tests. He is known to have on occasion described the result as the "limit" and assured his students, "I'll see that it won't harm...
...France this year brought forth last week loud protest to President Hoover from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Fifty-five black mothers with sons buried in France declared they would not go on the free pilgrimage unless the President ordered the War Department to abolish segregation and allow them to travel along with white mothers. Sample protest...
...Methodist Episcopal Church, South last week concluded the first fortnight of its quadrennial conference at Dallas. Some important church work was accomplished ?decision to increase the number of bishops from 13 to 16; decision to abolish "serve him'' and "obey him." from the marriage service; invention of a new sin for ministers ("gross impudence and high unministerial conduct"). But of more immediate interest to the conference was the tussle between Bishop James Cannon Jr. of Virginia and Layman Josephus Daniels...